26 12 06 5 things you may not know about me

I used to be a zoo keeper, at the now defunct Glasgow Zoo. I worked in the carnivore section and co-authored AFAIR a few articles for various journals mostly about behavioural enrichment. I'll leave others to decide if this experience helped or hindered my teaching.

I have played tai chi for over 16 years. I manage a few tai chi websites.

I entered the teaching profession for financial reasons when working as a zoo keeper (my daughter was born), I though I'd give it a go for a couple of years (about 15-16 years ago).

Unlike many edu bloggers I had an instinctive dislike for computers, until my head teacher 'made' me take an apple mac lc475 home over the summer. I bought my first computer in 1995 a Performa 630. This is considerably later than most folks entry to ict. HyperCard was the application that got my attention.

I have had poetry rejected by a poetry magazine, entirely justified I hasten to add, a very short lived ambition.

Thanks for playing along John – hope you had a good Christmas. Tom Barrett (Email) (URL) - 27 12 06 - 10:10

By the way, interestingly my first computer was also an apple, an iBook the old seashell type. I got it for my 21st birthday at university – so I was pretty late into too.Tom Barrett (Email) (URL) - 27 12 06 - 10:12

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